Infrastructure splurge is no silver bullet
Political parties should temper their election bribery with some hard numbers on the benefits.
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The big infrastructure spend-up is looking not so much a Covid rescue package, or even sensible economics, as an electoral lolly scramble.
The government’s $12 billion New Zealand Upgrade programme and earlier Provisional Growth Fund preceded the Covid crisis infrastructure spending
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Roger Bowden
Sun, 09 Aug 2020
Sun, 09 Aug 2020
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Infrastructure splurge is no silver bullet
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